Recognizing Apol

After recognizing Jayson, I thought that I need to recognize also John Paul Deloso who is even doing better right now with his professional career.  John Paul has been my secretary around four or five years.  He inherited much of my attitude besides being a toxic boss.

Unlike Jayson, John Paul who is a certified accountant is actively pursuing his career in an office in Makati.  I heard the his boss was really proud of him and has even promoted him.  His work includes creating the accounting system of their Accounting Department, which is not easy.  Buti na lang very systematic kami in doing our task in UECP, which I believe greatly contributed in formulating the system he proposed and adopted by the company.

John Paul is not only multi-tasking but also excellent with arts.  He is also strong in program planning which is not normally seen now a days among young people.  I really felt paralyzed when he resigned as my secretary few years ago because I have relied much on him.  His talent and expertise has made my ministry expand to a very high potential.  It seems nothing can stop our tandem in terms of creating and implementing ministry.

He is a hard working person, intelligent and we can categorized as crafty in some ways.  I still look forward working with him someday.  It is difficult to find a person who you can shoot anyway with any task.  John Paul by the way is a person who is very workaholic and will work until the wee hours in the night in UECP finishing all task since a new day is a new set of task for us.

I pray for your continuous success in your career ladder.  Of course, will tap you again when the right time comes hehehe... pakayaman ka na muna dyan hehehe....

Wala pala tayo ni isang picture na magkasama though we have been working together for a long time.

Proud with BOBinC Jayson

The first to launch to the professional world is Jayson of my group BOBinC.  He has been working several months already in a company where I have introduced him to.  So far, I am getting positive feedbacks from his boss.  He is enjoying it as well.

Sometimes life does not really go the way you planned it.  Like Jayson, who is a nursing graduate is now a businessman.  He is helping his boss manage three stores in Boracay.  His boss, by the way, can also be said my mentee during his Boy Scout years hehehe.

I am always proud with my mentees who have sore high in the challenges of life.  I felt God has used me to bring out the best in people.  And this is my purpose in life, "Equipping God's People for Every Good Work."  Though, I cannot take all credit, because it was all God's work, timing and guidance.  But I am sure happy and proud to be part of Jayson's journey.

He is now learning more on sales and marketing, and of course, personnel management.  Super layo sa nursing talaga... grabe!!! hahaha...  Through his leadership, I heard that the stores are more organized and now earning more than ever.  He also got his experience in firing people - astig di ba!  Well, I miss doing that one in the corporate, shouting at people, "You're FIRED!" hehehe

I just heard, he is also trying to organize a fellowship in a church in Boracay.  Wow!  Isn't that great!  I hope after this leg of journey, he will join me in serving God, fulltime... hehehe  - in my dreams!!!

I pray that he will continue to humble himself before God, and seek God wholeheartedly all the days of his life.  To have the wisdom of Solomon in making good decisions in all his dealings.  And to always be a blessing to others by doing the same in bringing out the best in people.

Keep it up, Jayson!!!

Sugar Beets Works!

I wanted to thank my cousin Rowena who introduced me to eat sugar beets some months ago.  She said it is good for removing fatty liver.

Actually, I was so lazy to buy and prepare it but eventually have to do it for my health sake.  I ate sugar beets around three weeks daily.  I did not eat whole beets a day but one beets for two or three days.  This is before I got sick.

The Sugar Beets smells like soil but tasty because of its sweetness.  I have to boil it and peel the skin.  Afterwards, just slice it to pcs and eat them with my salad.

When I was confined in Metropolitan Hospital, I had an ultrasound, but the result shows that my fatty liver is already gone.  So, after two week, I decided to see my regular doctor for a check-up because of my strange fever.  He was not satisfied with the finding of the Hospital specially about my fatty liver.  He can't believe that the fatty liver is gone.  So, he asked me to go for another ultrasound.

Today, I went for another ultrasound to the place where I regularly have my test.  They say if you wanted accuracy, you need to stay put with one place of testing so that there will be consistency and comparison of previous tests.  The technician was telling me that my fatty liver has indeed become very minimal.

She showed me the monitor and said that the liver should be the same color with the kidney.  And my liver and kidney is almost the same color.  If you have fatty liver, the liver will be whiter than the kidney.  Mine is only very slight white with many parts the same color with the kidney.  She said, maybe the result was so slight that the hospital has already ignored it.

I praise God that my liver is better as of the check-up but still need confirmation with my doctor tomorrow.  Still I am grateful.

For those who have fatty liver... you need to try Sugar Beets.

Fatty Liver prevents the liver to function right.  The liver is in-charge to say to our system if the fats that we eat are for storing or burning.  If you have fatty liver the tendency was for the liver to malfunction.  So the result, it will kept on telling our system to store fats rather than burn them.  The result is of course bigger belly, which make us big and look bad.

Eat Sugar Beets... lalo na ikaw Geran!!! hehehe

Mentoring Feelers

It has been our fourth meeting I think hehehe... It seems the last two meetings has been very productive for all of us.  I am refreshed through their sharing as well as from distancing myself from discipling young people lately.

It has been two years since I have decided not to get much involved in discipling our young people since I have already planned and decided through God's leading to leave UECP.  It is difficult to leave if we have too many baggages to carry.  It is heart-breaking to leave your group behind.

Strange but true.  It seems something struck me, when God has impressed on me to get this Feelers group on track.  Maybe this is the last group so far I would mentor before I totally bow out of UECP.  Feelers has been in existence for quite sometime now, but it seems they were not able to reach their maximum potential.  Some of them have even drifted away from church.  And only two or three of them are seriously involved in ministry.  I heard they have been passed from one counselor to another.  It seems no one lasted mentoring them.

Mentoring is a hard job and many people do not know how to really disciple people.  Most of the time the failure of discipleship ministry is the leader surrenders rather than the members surrender.

For the last two weeks of meeting, I saw the potential in every member of Feelers.  I hope that in these several months of fellowship, we would be able to make the most out of it in bringing the best from each one of them.

I also thank God, the last member has been found.  I was able to talk to Brian this morning and he agreed to rejoin the Feelers meeting every Friday.  If he would fulfill his promise then, Feelers is now a complete group once again.

Praise God…

UECP 80th Anniversary Rolling

It has been more than a week that I have been very much pre-occupied with meetings and trying to patch things up for the 80th Anniversary Celebration.  It seems we are fully packed with so much things that would give honor to God.  God has been very faithful to our church, and I am happy being part of this momentous celebration as the head of the program events.

There are so many things to praise God about.  I hope that every event would really be blessed by God and draw His people closer to Him.  As for the rest of my friends, please do help pray for the different events for our celebration.

Pray also for me: to have wisdom, patience and the strength to coordinate all activities well.

The activities are as follows:
June 11 - Heavenly Melody Concert (Hookien) @ Main Sanctuary 7:30 pm
June 12 - Heavenly Melody Concert (Mandarin)@ Main Sanctuary 7:30 pm
June 13 - Heavenly Melody Concert (English) @ Main Sanctuary 7:30 pm
June 20 - Performers’ Circle Musicale “First Name” @ Main Sanctuary 7:30 pm
June 28 - UEC Joint Choir @ Main Sanctuary 7:30 pm
July 9 and 10 - Revival Meetings with Elder Li Chien @Main Sanctuary 7:30 pm
July 11 - UEC Congress

Worship Service Theme:
July 05 - My Church and Its Legacy - 9 am Chinese Service, 11 am English Service
July 12 - My God and His Grace - 9 am Joint Worship Service
July 12 - Thanksgiving Service Celebration - 3 pm Special Thanksgiving Service
July 12 - Thanksgiving Dinner 7 pm Century Park Hotel Ballroom
July 19 - My Family and My Identity  9 am Chinese Service, 11 am English Service
July 26 - My Role and My Responsibility 9 am Chinese Service, 11 am English Service
November 8 - Children Ministry Musicale: Toys and Treasures

Not Fully Recovered

It has been more than a week after being discharged from the hospital.  I have continued to eat antibiotics for seven days, and it ended last Tuesday.  So, I started to report to work this week.  It seems all are normal but I have took notice that once a day, it seems an energy within me is built up and moves around my body and causes me to have cold sweat even in air-conditioned room.

Hmmm what is really happening to me?  It is very obvious that I have not fully recovered and there seems to be an imbalance within me.  What to do next seems odd?  I do not know if western medicine can help me with my problem.  I was thinking of trying out going back to the traditional Chinese medicine maybe it can help improve my condition.

I also do not know, maybe what I am experiencing is actually my body trying to adjust to the new weight I have.  I lost a total of 15 pounds +- 2.  The sudden drop of my body weight can also be the cause of this imbalance.  I am not a doctor but knows within that there is something wrong in me.  hehehe

I pray that God would be merciful in my condition since I have tons of work to finish for the next three months in preparation for our church's 80th year celebration.

God Gave Rest

After this ordeal of sickness, I really felt God has asked me to rest.  I think He is preparing me for the difficult task ahead, which is the 80th Anniversary Celebration where I am heading the program.  I think the preparation would be very tedious that I need to recharge so that I can launch the whole thing well.  God is incredibly active in our life that He guides and directs all our action for His glory.

Even the Family Camp.  Actually, I was prepared to God, talked with Bryan that we would be roommates, but it seems I was prevented to go because of this sickness.  I remembered the message of God during the Senior's Retreat, when He said, "the people whom you have discipled will continue your work in UECP."  I need not worry about anything.  I think God is also helping me to let go of things and give full trust to the people whom l have discipled.  I can only give them prayer support throughout the camp at home.  And indeed, God is faithful that many were indeed blessed during the camp.  Reports are coming in to me, how they were blessed.  I am happy about it.

So, in the midst of our busyness, God can give rest though it seems the rest was painful but I think I am more recharge for the tasks ahead now than before.  Still taking antibiotics until tomorrow, so I prefer to stay home and hopefully, I would be reporting to work this Wednesday.  And resume work that I have left behind.

Praise God for all things...

Able to Gain Ideal Weight

After this 15 days sickness, I actually lost 10 pounds, from 181 to 171 pounds.  I do not know if I should be happy about this or not.  Now, I am on my targeted weight.  My original target weight is 165 to 171, so I guess I was able to reach my goal.

The sudden thinness of my body seems has a price to pay.  It seems I have lost a little bit of my kagwapuhan.  After taking a closer look, my legs are so thin, the calves that I have been developing and were great were now gone.  The bulging muscles on my arms are gone as well.  My legs seems like chicken feet and my arms like chicken wings.

So, should I be happy about this weight loss or not.  I need to start my workout again next week.  Still eating antibiotics until Tuesday.  Maybe I have to start Friday, simple weights and wonder how long will my body to form beautifully once again.

I maybe vain, but that's the way life is for us singles hehehe... still hoping to attract someone not only with my brains, spirituality and love but also looks hehehe... wala na talaga akong masulat... bored at home lang talaga hehehe...

15 Days Fever

This is the worse sickness so far that I have encountered in my entire life.  It is really better to be operated at least you know what your sickness was.  So far, it was not dengue, just plain fever.   It has been categorized as FUO or Fever of Unknown Origin.  Since platelets went down a little maybe prevented by tawa-tawa leaves so parang dengue.  The fever was daily going down by .5 degrees so dapat typhoid but blood test does show that it was typhoid.

All test were made including malaria, typhoid, H-fever all were negative.  We have to call in specialist maybe it is infectious disease.  I had my 2-D echo, ultrasound of who abdomen, blood culture trice.  All found to be negative from any infectious disease.

So, we can only conclude that it was part of the spiritual warfare last month on the Prayer Challenge.  The night after all of this fever was over was the last battle, after the visit by an evil spirit in a dream and was able to cast it out successfully, I know the fever is finally over.

I praise God for so many people who are much concern and has been prayer for me.  It was indeed an honor to have friends who are really concern.  God remains victorious in times of trials, for He prepares us for the next challenge in the battle zone.  God took care of me in my times of misery.  I almost thought God has forgotten all about me.

During the 15 days of fever I stayed in the hospital for 9 days.  Among the fifteen days, 5 days I was burning 24 hours from 37.7 to 40.5.  The rest of the days will have 40.  It was so uncomfortable even lying on bed.  No angle is comfortable.  The IV has to be transfered from my right hand to left because it was already swollen after a few days.  My last three days, when the infectious disease doctor came, her immediate order was to remove the IV and stop all medicine to check everything.  God was indeed faithful because during those three days the fever started to decline fast.

I am still felt weak after the whole ordeal.  I only lost 5 pounds but my face will say I am slimmer than ever.

I thank God for His healing grace and thank everyone for your continuous prayer.  I also thank friends who did not visit.  I got the rest I needed.  Visiting sick people should be swift, but many do not understand that.  They prefer to chat and chat and chat.  They forgot sick people needs quietness.

Next time you wanted to visit sick people, simple tips.  Do not ask what happen, ask what is the sickness, pray for the person and then leave.  This is what I usually do, when I visit.  Voices irritates sick people.